Headroom For Max

As host of ESPN's Around the Horn, Max Kellerman played kindergarten cop for four yelping sportswriters who fired off one-liners on Kobe and Shaq and Britney and Madonna. Now he gets to be the distinguished professor of sports. On May 10 at 6 p.m. Fox Sports Net will premiere I, Max, a 30-minute daily show on which Kellerman will banter with a couple of as-yet-unnamed sidekicks and interact with viewers. "Rather than being the point guard, I will be the main scoring option," says Kellerman, 30, who first made a name for himself with animated displays of his encyclopedic knowledge of boxing on ESPN2. "On Around the Horn the most I could show of my ability was to state a conclusion with no chance to go through the analysis of what led me there. Now I can."